Katrina: Up Close

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Katrina Up Close Personal
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NCDDC Personal Impact Statements
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Post-Katrina Support Activities

• IT support to Mississippi Department of Marine
  Resources
• Facilitate partnered Post-Katrina grant
  proposals
• Environmental Assessment web site
• Change detection
• Imagery products
• Grounded boat count
• Storm surge analysis
• Internet mapping

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Mississippi Department of Marine Resources
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NESDIS MDMR Partnership

• Replace destroyed equipment
• Desktop PCs ruggedized laptops printers
  servers network hardware
• Data recovery underway
• Oyster habitat, finfish enforcement data

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EGT/EOP Post-Katrina Grant Proposals

• Tri-State coalition monitoring, assessment, and
  integrated ecosystem data management (federal,
  state, and academia
• USM/CenGOOS bathymetry surveys monitoring
  assessment for environmental impact data
  management
• NRL Response for environmental impact in situ
  obs, remote sensing, numerical modeling
  components
• LSU Biogeochemistry Wetlands Institute
  Katrinas impact on Breton Sound, La marshes

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Katrina Impact Assessment Website

• Mapping Mississippi Coastal Counties
• Infrastructure facilities
• Imagery
• FEMA destruction zones
• Change detection
• Grounded boat count
• www.ncddc.noaa.gov/Katrina

Also linked to Environmental Impact of
Hurricane Katrina website http//www.st.nmfs.noaa.
gov/hurricane_katrina/
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Change DetectionGulf Islands National Seashore
306.2 acres lost
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MODIS Aqua/Terra Turbidity ProductsLake
Pontchartrain (NASA ESD)
Aqua 7 Sept false color light plumes TSM
Terra Oct 24 post front re-suspended sediment
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Grounded Boat Count

• Over 4000 boat counts with GPS coordinates
• Provided to MDMR, FEMA, and USCG for assessment
  and removal
• Briefed to Mississippi congressional delegations

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Storm Surge Analysis

• Demographics reporting and infrastructure
  updates
• Flood levels observable via mouse drag across
  screen
• Tool developed through NESDIS grant to JSU

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Katrina Impact Assessment Websitedemonstration
www.ncddc.noaa.gov/Katrina